MUSICOLOGIST OF DEATH

Tim Blair

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Wednesday,
December,
26,
2012,(5:32am)

I am Australian, living in another country, waiting for “reconciliation” to really happen so that I can be proud of where I come from.

Parncutt, who currently pursues his interests in systematic musicology at Austria’s University of Graz, also wishes for a global wealth tax and the banning of Page 3 girls. And – as Jo Nova and Andrew Bolt have already observed – he wants to kill global warming deniers:

The death penalty is an appropriate punishment for influential GW deniers …

GW deniers … are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate …

If a jury of suitably qualified scientists estimated that a given GW denier had already, with high probability (say 95%), caused the deaths of over one million future people, then s/he would be sentenced to death. The sentence would then be commuted to life imprisonment if the accused admitted their mistake, demonstrated genuine regret, AND participated significantly and positively over a long period in programs to reduce the effects of GW (from jail).

Nice of him to give us the option. (Incidentally, if killing “future people” is a capital crime, it would be interesting to hear Parncutt’s views on abortion.) Besides his issues with people who don’t agree with him about the weather, Mr Music also has problems with fellow academics:

During the 1990s I (an Australian) applied for professorships in several different Canadian, American, British, German and Austrian universities without success. In most cases, the person who was offered the job was clearly less qualified that I am …

Maybe they just knew the difference between “that” and “than”. But we shouldn’t be too hard on this teachypreacher, since he’s apparently a victim of racism:

In recent years, I was repeatedly attacked by workplace colleagues with the apparent intention of forcing me to leave my department. The stated reasons were generally arbitrary, exaggerated, misleading or invented; the real reasons were presumably my cultural and disciplinary Otherness, coupled with envy of my research record, my interdisciplinary and international mobility, and my desire to promote transparency and high academic standards. To my astonishment, other colleagues not only failed to defend me – sometimes they even sided with the attacker/s. While many people were unsure what exactly was going on, they were also generally unwilling to be informed. Again, this is a subject statement, and readers may reasonable suspect me of being a bit paranoid. But there is plenty of good objective sociological research on academic mobbing, which – from a psychological or sociological point of view – is closely related to racial discrimination.

Still, our former Melbourne boy (who occasionally flies home) is happy in his new country, where he’s lived since 1998:

I do not wish to discourage people from visiting Austria. Compared to most other countries, and even Western countries, Austria is a peaceful place – there is relatively little violence. It is very unlikely that you will experience a physical threat of any kind …

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In recent years, I was repeatedly attacked by workplace colleagues with the apparent intention of forcing me to leave my department. The stated reasons were generally arbitrary, exaggerated, misleading or invented; the real reasons were presumably my cultural and disciplinary Otherness, coupled with envy of my research record, my interdisciplinary and international mobility, and my desire to promote transparency and high academic standards. To my astonishment, other colleagues not only failed to defend me – sometimes they even sided with the attacker/s. While many people were unsure what exactly was going on, they were also generally unwilling to be informed.

Well, Dickie old son, who is the only one in step then?

Oh, by the way, Dickie, your desire to promote transparency and high academic standards certainly doesn’t apply to climate science.

The sentence would then be commuted to life imprisonment if the accused admitted their mistake, demonstrated genuine regret, AND participated significantly and positively over a long period in programs to reduce the effects of GW (from jail).

The saltmines or Siberia? I can see where it’s this level of planning and not his ‘otherness’ that is putting off his academic colleagues.

Don’t give them clues RJ. The local knuckleheads will lap this stuff up.

Maybe he didn’t get the professorships, isn’t liked or people oppose him because he really isn’t very good at what he does and is not very likeable, i.e. he has on over-inflated idea of where he fits in the scheme of things.

Give poor Richard a break, the poor dear studied musicology for Christs sake. It’s sorta like the Beta of the VHS academic world. Of course he’s going to be an angry young man knowing he wasted his time on a redundant course when he would have been better off flipping burgers at Maccas for a career.

“Consider this: If ten million people are going to die with a probability of 10%, that is like one million people dying with a probability of 100%.”

Consider this: I bet Herr Doktor Parncutt $1,000 that a tossed coin will come up heads. There is a 50 percent probability that the coin will, indeed, come up heads. Before he tosses the coin, I point out to him that a 50 percent probability of winning $1,000 is the same as a 100 percent probability of winning $500.

No I suspect illiterates who hold academic positions to be incompetents recognised as such by colleagues who are fluent in written english.

So he wishes me dead. Fools like this have no concept of the true nature of humans or the actinic hatred he inspires. If you wish to see what happens when you rack up the intensity of division in society and propose the execution of wrong-thinkers, you need only to look at Somalia today, or his current locale in recent history.

Happily, free-thinking lefties and their kith and kin fare extremely poorly when true “humanity” is unleashed from the shackles of civility, as he is proposing.